New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 1: Jennie Batchelor

The WPHP Monthly Mercury

In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our conference episode involved interviews with conference plenaries, organizers, award winners, and award facilitators, becoming what we've affectionately termed a truly Frankensteinian attempt to answer the question: What do New Romanticisms sound like?

One answer is that it sounds like even more than what you first heard in our "It's Alive! The WPHP Monthly Mercury at New Romanticisms" episode. Our conversations with the conference plenaries were delightful, brilliant, generous, and wide-ranging, and there was no way for us to include all of the recorded material in one podcast episode of reasonable length. And so we bring you this: a series of bonus episodes containing our full interviews with Jennie Batchelor, Manu Samriti Chander, Noah Heringman, Patricia Matthew and Andrew McInnes, and Kirsteen McCue.

This episode is an interview with Dr. Jennie Batchelor, whose keynote was the BARS Marilyn Butler Memorial Lecture titled “To Rescue from Oblivion what Might Have Been Forgotten: The Lady’s Magazine and the Remaking of Romantic Literary History.” Jennie Batchelor is Head of the Department of English and Related Literature and Professor of English at the University of York.

Dr. Batchelor's most recent book, The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832) and the Making of Literary History, is available open access through the Edinburgh University Press website.